<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>1:46 oh here's a pen kath write on the word you've found it you got a pen? yes oh good okay yeah i think we can throw this one away i just wasn't interested in <{1><[1>that area i i just <.>w don't want to <{2><[2>know laughs <[1>no all right <[2>no okay <{><[>well as far as i remember <,,> tut it's wetland around here <[>i <.>think hang on hang on don't write it in in ink no because you <.>see exhales that's the boggy area look oh no hang <{><[>on no <.>th the <[>mm yes the big trees are at the end <{><[>there aren't they <[>the big trees are here where <.>that see that blob there that's the big trees oh is it <{><[>i thought that was a house site <[>but this is the drains <,,> this is <.>th well that's where the trees are this is the drain and the <{><[>wetland's round that drain <[>oh oh right <,> oh yes so it's gonna come across here isn't <{><[>it <[>mm i think so oh yes i was mistaking this drain <.>thing yeah well that's the trees so <{><[>actually the the <.>wetland <[>mm but the wetland doesn't come as far that way it's more this way can I do it yes but let's not rustle it right beside the microphone <{><[>because think it's gonna be deafening <[>oh okay yes this is a point <.>I I think it's like this now there's <.>that we walked along there yeah <&>3:00 and looked at it and there's a house site HERE <{><[>the trees are there and this is on a kind of um thing but the wetland is sort of HERE <.>th <.>that's <.>th the ditch is along the side of it really <[>that's where that green paddock is isn't it mm and then it comes in here <&>next four utterances addressed to dog get off <,> get off <{><[>please go on i don't want you up here go on get off <[>she's pushy isn't she and it's sort of round here <,,> like that and there's a nice low but firm bit here which is a house site where those trees are and then the fence is <.>half or is NEARLY to the top of that low hill that's not a very high hill so if you put a house <.>THERE mm in that area voc this hill wouldn't cut its sun tut it wouldn't would it no cos it would be voc silly to build a house that couldn't see sunsets out there wouldn't it tut well yeah but if it saw sunsets it'd also <{><[>be steep into the westerly <[>mm <.>i er <.>i only looked up the riki valley into <.>the into the <{><[>southerly showers <[>yeah yeah <.>this this way is riki valley <&>4:00 isn't it <{><[>so that's south <[>yes yes it hasn't got <.>a <.>a an arrow but i <.>think i'll get <.>a i'll put what i think <.>is is in now <.>here's there's the main road so that must be <{><[>south there that's the riki valley in the south <[>that must be south down there yeah mm <,,><&>3 well for warmth you'd be better to put the <.>house except there's no hill there is there the hill's here yes there is a bit of a hill there's pine trees <{1><[1>here there's pine trees here <{2><[2>and the ground rises <[1>yeah <[2>yes there are THERE <{><[>behind it yeah yeah <[>there yeah <{><[>yeah <[>it would have a nice westerly look <,,><&>3 mm mm i mean if you put your house up here you'd be tucked aWAY from your property <{><[>you'd be tucked aWAY <.>from yes it would actually i think <[>it would be good for vegetable gardens and things like that round there wouldn't it yeah cos it looked like very fertile <{><[>soil there <.>a and you'd probably be able to do nice home garden there and this could be a park <[>yeah mm I'D like to get permission to get gumboots on <&>5:00 and walk all over it mm perhaps next week mm well <.>i it didn't sound as if there'd be any problem with <{><[>that <[>no i'd like to tell him i was going to do it though yeah but i mean how do we find <.>t a hundred <.>and whatever it is a hundred and <{><[>thirty five <[>thirty thirty FIVE thirty five's a LOT <,,><&>4 well <{><[>he said that <.>th he said the owner <.>might the owners might be prepared to come down but of course he didn't give any indication how much <[>voc no how much was the place on the riki valley road hundred and thirty was it mm <,> or was it a hundred and ten i thought it was ninety five <{><[>or something <[>no not the nice one oh was <{><[>it <[>it was over a hundred <{><[>cos we were thinking of offering a hundred for it <[>oh oh we were weren't we yeah that's right <{><[>oh well yes and that <.>was <[>yeah mm that was <.>thr five and a half acres wasn't it yep and this is fifteen acres <,,> actually <&>6:00 is it mm <,> makes you think of nineteen acres at manakau as not being such an enormous piece after all <{><[>isn't it <[>yeah yeah but do you really want to look at it no not really no i just <{1><[1>word i mean we want a place so we can come and <{2><[2>stay here in weekends and go up and do some work on it <[1>i think manakau's too far away <[2>this is the area we know yeah this is the area we know i think that's really important coughs isn't fluffy funny she's sat round the end of the sofa and she's still jiggling at it with her <.>w <.>scratching oh i'm sorry do you want to come and sit over here no it's all right it's just that she likes that little spot <{><[>because it's very warm <[>i suppose <.>th <.>the the fire <{1><[1>makes it hot <{2><[2>doesn't it <[1>mm <[2>it's really nice <,,> it's too big that's the trouble <.>if if we <{><[>bought by half <[>what this number three? oh i don't think so i reckon you would make a lake yes right in the middle this big <,> all out here and you'd have a driveway in here would you want the drive there i reckon you <&>7:00 could put the house here and the driveway in there oh well if you're gonna put the house here <{><[>that is on this side you'd have the driveway in here <[>oh i see yes yeah mm you'd have a large stand of deciduous trees all up the <{><[>driveway house round here lake round there <[>yeah mm <.>i into which this would drain and then the major <.>garden would be <{><[>there <[>the large garden area would be between <.>the the <{><[>what are they gum trees and the lake <[>mm mm mm tut yes the nice thing about it is <{1><[1>it's not a predetermined lump like <{2><[2>the hills are which means you can make <{3><[3>little secret areas by planting <{4><[4>shelter belts and <.>pl and you can make rooms and if you can make vistas to the lake and all sorts of things i mean it could be just lovely couldn't it <[1>i think it's lovely <[2>no <[3>yes <[4>mm or instead of having one big <.>lake yes <{><[>i would have <.>s a chain of little ones <[>you could have <,> a chain of ponds and a walk <{><[>among them or something like that like that <.>a a chain of ponds <[>mm yes up to about here <.>up up here tut yep like that <,,> with <{1><[1>largish trees on <.>the <&>8:00 on the intersections of the <{2><[2>walks between them <[1>yes mm <[2>mm not right down by the road there they'd come up to here they have to swing up <{><[>there a bit <[>you wouldn't be able to do much else with that bit by the road except <.>put <{><[>put a sort of <[>except make lakes no and you want <{><[>the lakes to be the barrier mm <[>put <.>in put some eucalyptus trees between the road and them so <{><[>there'd be a bit <.>of so that when you were in among the chain of walk around the <.>lakes <[>yes so there'd a barrier mm <{><[><.>you you wouldn't sort of look at tut cars driving along the road <[>you didn't see the road no but the <.>main the main gardeny bit i <.>agree <.>this this is a lovely bit here it's got those nice trees but actually <{><[>some of those nice trees are in number four <[>yeah is <.>that <{><[>is that what was at the totara no a maire you said <[>yeah no i think it might have been a maire or a matai well <{><[><.>which which <.>property which one was that in <[>it's hard to see i can't remember but <.>i i hoped it was <.>in i think it was in this one because he said you look at the tree and you look at the dead tree and then you look at the fence behind them so yes it's um oh but he was identifying <{><[>that corner at that stage <[>yeah but we <.>were no we were standing over here oh we were standing over <{><[>here looking here <&>9:00 and he said now <.>you yeah i think so <[>oh yeah it was when we still there wasn't it <,,><&>3 i think so cos he said the cone shaped tree it was when we were up <{><[>here <[>yes the cone shaped tree is here i think about there i thought it was more here no i think you're probably right <{><[>could be down there <[>maybe? around there? but the wetland around <.>here you thought it was <{><[>a bit bare <[>i thought it <.>w looked fairly poor i mean i reckon it looked like a whole lot of dead manuka trees and flats certainly the <.>wed wetlands we saw up further north was much more um yeah but <{><[>wetland is dead manuka trees and flax toitoi flax manuka that's what it is <[>mm i suppose so all very well for ducks but what we want we make better here yes we would mm <,,><&>3 these two would overlook us <,,> <{><[>would it matter <[>yes <.>we we might have very um executive belt <.>looking yeah houses yeah to look at <&>10:00 with daisy bushes round them well or something around them staring <.>at but my idea is to plant along the driveway if the house was <{1><[1>round <.>the the corner there would be to plant <.>a <.>a a good thick layer of those palonia trees or something like that <,> <{2><[2>along there so <.>actually <[1>mm mm <[2>yeah to have a planting so <.>that yeah the point is if those houses are up on those hills <{><[>people walking around our lakes are going to be able to look up at them come what may <[>yes they'll see they'll see over the trees they'll be all right well i think the view from the <.>angle the view would probably be largely cut off by our trees which will in ten year's <.>time be huge will <{><[>be thirty feet high <,> no but then <.>y we're some distance from those houses <[>not if you're over here yeah <{><[>wouldn't matter so much <[>you'd be closer to houses on here yes oh <{1><[1>there <.>i i'm not attracted by that i i think that's <{2><[2>awful <[1>or there or <[2>no i think this is a weird kind of area <{1><[1>eric thinks it's great and everything but i suppose it's cos you can see the <{2><[2>island from it <[1>word <[2>you can see the views you <&>11:00 can see the views yeah but you can't see one part the property from any other because of <{><[>the it's it all falls away from that knob <[>no mm didn't really attract me at all no it didn't me either i thought it was odd well i think you'd make a nice little a nice little house with a trim garden but not if you wanted to make <{><[>a park not if you wanted to develop something really exciting <[>mm no <,> well not of kind of we're thinking i think that number three is the only one there that would do yeah me too or possibly number four <{><[>but number four's smaller and it's got bigger wetland on it <[>or possibly 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